Growing up in South Africa, we ate a great deal of mutton. It was cheap & available. I knew nothing of steak and salmon until I got to Vancouver, where salmon is cheap & available. Yet I still long for the gamey taste of mutton. I found it once in Mexican Hat in the Navajo [...]
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New Zealand Mining Debate: Lamb vs Lignite?
Posted in Australia and New Zealand, Coal, mining, tagged lamb, mining, mutton, new Zealand, straterra on January 26, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Gleision Colliery Mining Fatalities Re-examined
Posted in About the news, Coal, health and safety, tagged colliery, gleision, queen elizabeth on January 14, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
What with Welsh miners in the news and possibly becoming a feature of the presidential election, let us turn to a story of the death of four miners last year in a Welsh coal mine. Here is what Queen Elizabeth said in her Christmas message about the deaths:
Mining Obama vs Romney vs Gingrich vs Ron Paul as Supporters of Mining
Posted in British Columbia, Coal, environmental, Europe, Mining history, North America, People, tagged ann romney, coegnant colliery, david davies, Disney, gingrich, Grand Canyon, mining, Obama, romney, ron paul, vancouver junior, wales on January 13, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
With Mitt Romney well on his way to being the next president, I thought it time to examine their attitudes to mining. OK, I know there are a few more pesky elections and attacks on Romney’s for his capitalistic sins (firing excess workers at unprofitable companies) to get through, but still the news snippets are fun. [...]
Pyrite (Fools Gold) Damages 20,000 Irish Houses and Coal Miners Facilities
Posted in About the news, Coal, Mining history, tagged Adrian Smith, coleman, cracked, dublin, irish house, kildare, lavelle, meath, offaly, pyrite on November 18, 2011 | 1 Comment »
An e-mail arrived on my desk asking what I know about pyrite damaging houses. The question came from a young surveying student at a technical college in Ireland. Here is the story. Apparently 20,000 new houses in Ireland are cracked and damaged because a pyrite-rich rock from a local quarry was used in construction of [...]
Canadian Mine Wages in Metal, Industrial Mineral, and Fossil Fuel Mines
Posted in Coal, Jobs and Salaries, Oil sands, tagged Canada, mines, Oil sands, wages on July 7, 2011 | 2 Comments »
From the CostMine 2011 Survey of Canadian Mine Salaries, Wages, and Benefits, here are some average hourly wages. For selected job categories, I provide three numbers. The first is the average on Canadian metal mines; the second on industrial mineral mines; and the third is on fossil fuel mines.
Massey Energy denies report of responsibility for Upper Big Branch mine deaths
Posted in About the news, Coal, safety, Underground, tagged big branch mine, Coal, death, massey energy, politicians on May 20, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
This report should be mandatory reading for all in the mining industry. If you are a Democrat you will believe it, and believe something should be done—particularly a change in the law and more enforcement of lax and dishonest mine operators. If you are a Republican, you will ignore it, attack it, and say [...]
Arizona Mining Statistics
Posted in Coal, mining, Uranium, tagged Arizona, mining, production, statistics on May 9, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
A quick Monday morning post. Some statistics on mining in Arizona. These numbers are lifted from Arizona Geology, always a good source of information about mining in that state.
Rick Call of Call & Nicholas: The Probability of Mine Slope Failure.
Posted in British Columbia, Coal, consulting, Mining history, People, tagged andy robertson, call & nicholas, dave nicholas, failure probability, ned larson, Open Pit, rick call, slope, srk, steffen robertson and kirsten on April 27, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Rummaging around in old papers this past week, I came across the yellowing paper of a type-writer-typed paper from 1982. I think I went to Edmonton to present the paper at the 4th Open Pit Operators Conference. I vaguely recall a small city perched on the edge of a river—not at all like the city now that [...]
Richard Burton on Mining
Posted in Coal, Mining history, People, tagged Coal, miner, richard burton, wales, you tube on April 5, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
“The arrogant strut of the coal miner.” That is how Richard Burton describes the men of the valley where he grew up in Wales. Here is the link to a YouTube of a 1980 clip of Burton on the Dick Cavett Show talking of his brother who went down the mines at thirty and died at [...]
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